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F. G. DIAGO GRAVITY REGISTER 1923 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Fi l-ed Nov 24 x w l WITNESSES WMM INVENTOR 7 By X6 ATTORNEYS character Patented Jan. 5, 1926.

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Application filed November as, 1923: Serial No. 676,818.

To all whom it-may concern.

Be it known that I, FEDERIOO Guiniinnaro DIAGO, a citizen of Cuba, and resident of Habana, Cuba, have invented certain new and useiullmprovements in Gravity Registers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in registering apparatuses and it consists of the constructions, combinations and arrangements herein described and claimed.

An object of the invention is to provide an apparatus for registering the various transactions of a warehouse, store, business, 'etc., to which it may be particularly adapted.

A further object of the invention is to provide a registering apparatus for the purposes described, the primary moving element of said apparatus being a ball, or other weight, which is adapted to be released and then perform certain registering operations by the action of gravity.

A further object of the invention is to provide a'gravity registering apparatus for the purposes and of the type described which is adapted to be installed in a building or other place where it is intended to be used, as a permanent fixture.

A. further object of the invention is to pro vide a gravity registering apparatus of the described which has branches reaching to all desired parts of an establishment in respect to which it is desired to reg ister certain transactions, said branches terminating'at a common outlet, for example, the managers o co.

Another object of the invention is to adapt the principles of the registering apparatus to a voting machine as more fully disclosed below. v

Other objects'and advantages will appear in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a diagrammatic View illustrating a simplified form, used in connection with an establishment handling a standard sized container.

Figure 2 is a detail front elevation of one of the adders used inconnection with one of the drop tubes-shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a'rear elevation of the adder in Figure 2. v

Figure 4 is a perspective v ew of the ball releasing slide of gravity register as Figure 5 is a detail front elevation of the calculator shown in Figure 1.

Figure 6 is a diagram illustrating the adaptation of the invention to a machine for registering monetary transactions.

F1gure 1s a section on the line 7-7 of Fig. 6.

Figure 1s a diagram illustrating the adaptation of the gravity register to the needs of a 5 and 10 store.

Figure 9 is an elevation illustrating the operating mechanism of the cash adder shown in Figure 6.

By'reference to Figure 1 it is to be ob served that the building in which the invention is supposed to be installed comprises a floor 1 which is divided by a wall 2 into stock and shipping rooms 3 and 4 respectively. Situated in each of the rooms is a hopper 5 and 6 which holds a number of suiiiciently heavy weights or balls 7 and 8.

The hopper 5 communicates with a chute 9 into which one of the balls 7 is dropped upon the depression of the key lever 10. This key lever is pivoted, and that end opposite the pivot and key engages the tappet 11 of a cam 12. The tappet i s guided in bearings 13, and has a spring 14 engaging the uppermost bearing and a collar 15 for the the purpose of normally depressing the cam.

tensionof a spring 17. i The double slide is composed of plates 18 and 19 (Fig. i), the uppermost plate having a hole 20 to receive one of the balls 7, the lowermost plate having a hole 21 to discharge that ball into the chute 9 when the slide moves over. 7

Situated at a suitable location along the chute 9 is an adder 22. Theadder has a lever 23 projecting into the chute 9 through an opening 242. The ball, u on being released by the double slide, falls own the chute; depresses the lever 23 and causes the units disk 25 of the adder to move one step. The detfiils of the adder are shown in l igures- 2 and 3.

in Figure 3 the lever 23 is shown as pivoted at 26.. A spring 27 holds the lever up against the stop pin 28. The lever carries a dog 29 which engages the teeth of a ratchet 30 behind the disk 25.. Each depression of the lever 23 moves the ratchet 30 the tance of one tooth, and when the units disk" makes the tenth movement a-lug 31 on the disk engages one of the teeth 32 of the tens disk 33 to thereby move that disk one step.

The. construction chosen to illustrate the operation are chosen for illustration in the drawings. The purpose of the adder 22 is to register the number of barrels 34 stored in the stock room. The adder 22 shows the I advantage in Figure 5.

stock room as having contained 10 barrels. Two of these have been removed as appears farther on.

Continuing down the chute 9 the releasedball will strike the lever 35 of the calculator 36 which has mechanism constituting an adder 37 and a subtractor 38. The lever 35 projects into the chute 9 through an opening 39. After operating the lever 35 the ball drops into a common receiving basket 40 whence it may be removed and ultimately replaced in the hopper 5. The adder 37 is identical With the adder 22, and its function is to register the quantity of barrels 34 stored in the stock room 3.

In reference to the mechanism in the shipping room 4. the shipping clerk is supposed to depress the key lever 41 once for-each barrel received from the stock room. A depression of this lever moves the tappet 42 upwardly so that the cam 43 shifts the double slide over to the right and releases the entrapped ball. The tappet 42 is supported by bearings 44. A spring45 engages the upper bearing and a collar 46 on the tappet so as to hold the cam 43 down and the key lever 41 up.

The double slide is .composed of plates 47 and 48 which respectively have holes that are ofl'set in the manner illustrated in Figure 4. These holes are for the purpose of first permitting a ball to drop into the slide against the lower plate and finally to permit the entrappedballto drop into the chute 49. The double slide carries a pin 50 which is engaged. by the cam 43. A spring 51 drives the slide back until the pin engages the cam.

As each ball drops into the chute 49 it strikes the lever 52 of an adder53, the purpose of which is to keep a register of the number of -barrels received from the stock room and shipped from the shipping room 4. After having operated the lever 52 the ball passes down the chute 49 and o erates the leverj54 of the subtractor 38. he details of the calculator 36 are shown to better The subtractor 381 is composed of units and tens disks 55 and 56 which are operated on the same principle as any one of the adders described before. The only actual difference is that the subtractor 38 is so arranged that each depression of the lever 54 will set the units disk 55 back one step or one-number. .The manager, in whose officc the calculator 36 is supposed to be, can thereby tell at a glance how many barrels were stored (see adder 37) and how many barels are still in storage (see subtractor 38 It can be readily understood that each depression of the lever 54 will cause the dog 57 (Fig. 5) to move the ratchet 58, and consequently the disk 55, back one step, the numerals on the disk being arranged so that the one next lowest will show at each operation. The mode of operation of the subtractor presupposes that the disks 55 and 56 were originally set at some predetermined high number. For example, also for the purpose of illustration, the disks were set at 10. Twodepressions of the lever 54 set the disk 55 back twice so that the numeral 8 appears. The two depressions of the lever 54 were occasioned by the receiving and shipping of two barrels at the shipping room 4.

Although the arrangement in Figure 1 is of an extremely simplified nature, the reader will understand that the use of the invention is not confined merely to two ball hoppers and the attendant releasing mechanism. There may be as many ball hoppers and accompanying releasing mechanisms as the building, factory or otherbusiness may have rooms or departments in respect to which-a record is kept.

It is easy toimagine that the chutes of all of the various hoppers will merge either into an adder chute, such as the chute 9 or a sub tractor chute, such as the chute 49.

Figure 6 conveys an idea as to what such I a modification would look like. The modification in Figure 6 is designed to keep an account of money of different denominations. The modification in Figure 1 is designed to keep account of the receipt and disbursement of barrels of material. The principle is the same in both cases. In Fig.

6 the ball hopper 59 has commoncommunication with a plurality of chutes 60, 61, 62, 63 and 64, These, according to the legends on-the key levers 65, 66, 67, 68 and 69 are for bonuses, five cent pieces, dollars, twentyfive cent and one cent pieces.

The description of the chute 60 and its accompanying release mechanisln will sufficeforall, inasmuch as all are alike. The lever 65 (Fig. 7) is ada. ted, upon depression, to raise the ta pet 0 against the tension of the sprin 71 to thereby cause the cam 72 to move t e double slide 73 and 74 over toward the right. This action releases the entrapped ball 75 so that it may fall into the chute 60 and cause the operation of the bonus; register 76. The bonus register has purpose.

charges into a receiving basket 78. The

a lever 77 projecting intothe chute for the The released ball finally disstatement last made that the operation of all of the chutes is alike is not strictly true because balls released in the chute operate an independent bonus register, whereas balls released in the remaining four chutes operate a cash adder.

Each chute 66, 67, 68 and 69 passes through the casing of a cash adder before 1t discharges into a common receiving basket 81. The ends of the chute are brought together as clearly shown in Figures 6 and 9 so that the balls may drop into the basket after having operated the mechanism in the adder. Attention is directed to Figure 9.

A plurality of disks 82, 83, 84 and are for the purpose of registering one-cent, fivecent, twenty-five cent pieces and dollars in the order named. The disks 82 and 83 have numerals running-from 0 to 4 and. 0 to 20. The disk 84 has numbers running from 0 to 7 5 increasing by twenty-fives. The disk 85 has numerals running from 0 to 19 in consecutive order.

Balls or weights dropping into the various chutes from the hopper 59 (Fig. 6) upon operation of the appropriate .ke'y lever will cause the turnin of oneof the disks (Fig. 9) to indicate the value of the sale made. A ball dropping down the penny chute 69 will depress the lever 87 so that it moves into the dotted line position, and in so moving imparts a one-fifth turn tow the disk 82. The 0 which now appears in the window will be replaced by the numeral 1. The lever 87 is pivoted at 89, one end extending through a slot 90 of the chute 69, the other end carrying a dog 91 through which the star wheel 92 is operated. A spring 93 pulls the lever back againsta stop pin 94. The

. dog permits passage beyond the lowermost prong of the star wheel 92 upon the return of the lever.

After the disk 82 has made the fifth turn in the direction of the arrow, a prong 95 7 carried thereby, has rocked a lever 96 so that the, dog 97 carried by that lever will have imparted a one-fifth turn to the star wheel 98 of the five-cent disk 83. The lever 96 is pivoted at 99 in the casing, and like the lever;

spring 101.

, Provision is also made for turning the five-cent disk 83 by balls dropping into the chute 66. This chute has a slot 102 (see Fig. 9) into which blades 103 on the periphery of the disk 83 extend in turn so as to be engaged by the falling bans. The turning oi the disk 83 in this manner is not inter ferd with by the dog 97 inasmuch as the dog is held out of the path of the star wheel 98. Every fifth turn of the disk 83 is transmitted to the 25 disk 4 by means of a lever 104 which is then rocked by the engagement of a prong 105 on the disk 83. The end of the lever 104 carries a dog 106 which engages the prongs of the star wheel 107 on the disk 84.

This disk has four radial blades 108 which extend into the chute 88 through a slot 109 to be operated by balls released ther'einto. Every fourth turn of the disk 84 is transmitted to the dollar disk 85 by a prong 110. The lever 104 is held against a stop 111 by a spring 112.

The prong engages one of the short radial blades 113 on the periphery of the di:k 85 on every fourth turn of the disk 84 as stated. Every twentieth turn of the disk 85 is transmitted to a totalizing disk 86 through the engagement of a prong 114 on the disk 85 with one of the radial blades 115 on the disk 86. The dollar disk 85 is o-per- H windows on the front of the casing 80 as shown in Figure 6. These Windows have appropriate legends to indicate the particu* lar kind of money which is registered therein. The operation of the cash adder in Figure 9 may be briefly reviewed.

Assume that a twenty-five cent sale has been made. The operator will depress the appropriate key lever so that a ball drops into the chute '68 and causes the disk 84 to make a one-fourth turn by engaging the uppermost blade 108 in th chute. The figure 25- will now appear at the 25 window. Assume next that a two-cent sale is made. The operator will depress the one-cent key lever twice so that two balls are released in the chute 69 and the disk 82 caused to make two turns. The figure 2 willnow appear at the window 88. The total amount of money taken in up to this time was 27 which can readily be ascertained by referring to th windows of the casin 8.

Assume next that 'a one-dol ar' sale is made. The depression of the appropriate key lever releases a ball in the chute 67 so dropping balls into the chute 66, is not in terfered with by the lever 96. This is also true of the disks 84 and 85. The twentieth turn of the disk 85 will turn the disk 86 once so that $20.00 is registered thereby.

' Figure 8 illustrates the adaptations of the invention to the needs of a five and ten cent store. The hoppers 118, 119, 120, 121, 122,

123 and 124 have communication with chutes 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130 and 131 all of which should communicate with a common discharge chute 132 emptying into a basket 133.

The-construction of the first four chutes isalike in that each of these have an asso-' ciated adder 134 together with a lever 135 operate the adder 134 by striking the lever- 135. A similar operation occurs in respect to all of th chutes up to the chute 128.

There is a slight difi'erence in construction in the remaining chutes beginnin at 129. The chute 129 has an opening 140 1nto which a trigger 141 extends. This trig er terminates in a dog 142 which is en a a le with the teeth 143 of a percentage is 144. A ball is released from the hopper 122 by depressing the key lever 145. This and the other levers 146 and 147 are for the purpose of -registering certain overhead charges which must be kept track of in conducting 119, operating the associated adder 134 to register the number of the transaction Similarly, should the sale have been made of an article of glassware, the key lever 149 is depressed with the same result. In respect to the percentage disks, it is to be noted that each has certain data printed thereon. The 37% which is taken as a basis is printed individually on each of the disks, and also the multiples thereof.

I claim Registering apparatus comprising a hopper containing! weights, a chute. in connection with the hopper intended to receive the weights, and a slide arranged to reciprocate across the chut at right angles, said slide being comsed of a pair of parallel plates spaced su 'ciently apart to receive a weight therebetween, the upper plate having an opening in normal registration with the.

chute above, the lower late having an opening registerable with t e chute below when the slide is shifted to permit a weight to drop through.

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